{"product_id":"more-gone-9780872867666","title":"More Gone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, number 18 in the Spotlight Poetry Series, is his first full-length collection in a decade, as well as the first to follow-up to his well-received memoir \u003cem\u003eCan It!\u003c\/em\u003eWritten in a distinctive mix of New York quotidian and post-Language abstraction,\u003cem\u003e More Gone \u003c\/em\u003edocuments the poet’s search for domestic tranquility amidst the city that never sleeps. Berrigan draws on a variety of materials, from songs to found language, assembling them into poems of oblique humor and wry perspective on the challenges of everyday existence. These poems aren’t anecdotes or confessions so much as objects in their own right, even as they remain rooted in a recognizable urban landscape: “Mostly, the city is begging for love, grieving, \/ or telling us to back the fuck off.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, Eddie Berrigan shows so much writing savvy it has long sleeves, on which he we\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eMore Gone:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Edmund Berrigan's \u003cem\u003eMore Gone\u003c\/em\u003e follows his book \u003cem\u003eCan It!\u003c\/em\u003e in the creation of a poetic universe of sonic fizz and existential vulnerability. These poems are raucous artifacts of whimsy, pain, and the intricate joy of carrying an interior world into language. … In a sense, More Gone is a large-scale sifting-through of the effects of living, both bewilderingly and comfortably, as part of a poetry family (along with Alice Notley and Anselm Berrigan) and within a wider tradition of New York School poetics.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Edmund Berrigan:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I couldn’t help but recall my all-time-favorite diary project, Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal. Lyn Hejinian’s cycling musical motifs in \u003cem\u003eMy Life\u003c\/em\u003e seemed to get echoed by \u003cem\u003eCan It!\u003c\/em\u003e’s repetitive structures. Eileen Myles’s \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e and James Schulyer’s diaries and John Wieners’ \u003cem\u003e707 Scott Street\u003c\/em\u003e all came to mind.”—Andy Fitch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Eddie Berrigan gives a nod to his lineage, acknowledging his upbringing as poetry’s child. Berrigan’s music, laced with undercurrents of violence and tension, is elegant and hysterically absurd by turns. These poems are a blueprint for a new generation of young American Poets”—Brenda Coultas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rare sort of spy for the imperfect pitch”—John Coletti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The strengths of the collection are multiple, from the emotional content to the narrative threads that ride deep throughout, and the breaks that exist between them through the collage-aspect of the final text. \u003cem\u003eCan It!\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of memory, comfort and being, and works through some difficult territory, from the loss of his father to the loss of his step-father. In the end, this is a conversation Berrigan is able to have through writing, and one that we should consider ourselves fortunate enough to have access to.”—Rob McLennan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Can It!\u003c\/em\u003e is also a fully realized post-Language-School work, sections of which strive to tear apart Berrigan’s established personae and voices, and a playful tribute to the avant-garde surrealist aesthetic that was ushered into America nearly a century ago. … These styles and traditions jumble together from section to section and form a whole that is rife with Whitman-esque contradictions and pleasantly revels in its inability to be pinned down in genre or intent.”—Janice Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Berrigan deserves attention for offering up something new without chagrin and charged with vitality. These are poems you may walk about in.”—Patrick James Dunagan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884896432471,"sku":"9780872867666","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/more-gone-9780872867666","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}